>> a moroccan jet taking part in saudi led air strikes in yemen goes missing. hello i'm darren jordan with the world news from al jazeera north korea's test launch of a new ballistic missile. crack down on human traffickers. ♪ ♪ >> and how venezuela is helping to recover a language on the be brink of dying out.

>> we begin with news now in yemen and morocco's news agency is reporting that a fighter jet has gone missing. f-16 similar to the one here was hit but it didn't say by what. it's not known if the pilot ejected or not. morocco led the alliance of saudi arabia by lending six jets. small sign of diplomatic progress as hashem ahelbarra reports. >> reporter: it's the first time the saudi led coalition has targeted yemen's former president, ali abdullah saleh. the former saudi ally was unharmed in the attack, and

remains defiant. >> translator: you should continue carrying your arms. ready to sacrifice your lives in defense against these belligerent attacks. i can describe this aggression as an act of cowards. if you are brave enough come and face us at the battlefield. come and we will be at your reception. shelling us will not enable you to achieve any of your goal. >> this is the moment the location was struck by coalition jets, to prevent the landing of air crafts carrying aid. the saudi led coalition has intensified its military campaign pounding targets in saada province in northern yemen, in aden, apra chebwa and other provinces.

this is an ammunition depot the houthis were planning to use to shell saudis. the houthis remain skeptical about the ceasefire they say any step to alleviate the suffering of the yemenis will be welcome. they are urging aid agencies to send immediate aid to the people. >> they are the ones who start the fight. if they stop the fighting, this will lead to the humanitarian criescrisis in yes, ma'am the saudi will stop. but they will stick to this five days ceasefire. >> reporter: the u.n. has announced it will start delivering aid when all parties have committed to a ceasefire. >> we need to be given proper

structure to this agreement to allow the u.n. to expand operation on the ground. we are ready to do that. but certain precondition has to be made. we hope that will be met in the coming days. there is no time to lose. every day we spend innocent civilian lives are lost. >> reporter: but fighting shows no sign of abating. this was a village that was attacked in the central province of ibb. locals say there are no fighters in the area. the continuing war undermines the chance he for a political structure in the country that has been ravaged for years. if they take into account their growing political influence across yemen. hashem ahelbarra al jazeera. >> in iraq the city of fallujah at least 40 militia members have been killed.

iraqi government meanwhile says it arrested 27 police officers from alhalis where i.s.i.l. fighters staged ojailbreak on saturday. they used explosives freeing 200 prisoners. in syria opposition forces have launched a attack on the latest -- last rebel groups overtook the town last month further south there's been heavy fighting on the border with lebanon. mohamed saleh reports. >> more than 200 syrian soldiers are besieged. a coalition of rebels which includes el nusra fighters who

are allied with al qaeda overran the town around two weeks ago. the town is crucial to the syrian government, not far from aleppo and atakia which is president bashar al-assad's stronghold on the coast. video from hezbollah fighting along syrian government forces show fierce fighting in the mountains. hezbollah says its fighters are make gains clearing a number of areas. >> translator: we are standing on the hilltop where the attack started. we used medium and heavy weapons and our ground troops are advancing under the cover of heavy fire. >> reporter: syrian jets were also providing aerial support hitting a number of key targets pmg a key support point for boast hezbollah and the syrian government secure a key road,

connecting the capital of dmasks. it's a hard battle. the mountain range is vast and rugged. the syrian reckless are adapting guerilla war tactics. that can provide hard for the syrian targets. number after tacks and are vowing to fight back. this battle is going to be a long one. and it could easily spill over into lebanon and deepen the political infighting and sectarian railroad tensions there. omar saleh al jazeera.

groups have promised to lay down arms and stopped the violence have killed thousands of people. under the deal, those involved in war crimes will not be granted amnesty. people are forced to flee their homes due to the fighting. india's capital bujumbura peter nkurunziza see his decision to run again as 19 people have died in demonstrations against president. more than 570 people have been rescued from boats off western indonesia. most of them on board were muslims from myanmar. one migrant said they spent months at sea. persecution in myanmar thousands more being held in ships in nearby international

waters. >> now south korea's defense minister says his country will respond mercilessly to north korea's test firing of submarine launch of a ballistic missile. harry what have south korea's defense minister been saying? >> they held a press conference, the defense ministry also briefing the national assembly on monday. it's clear they're taking it seriously. not saying they will respond mercilessly to any provocations of north korea but also saying this development is very serious and worrying, urging north korea immediately to assess development of submarine missiles on the peninsula, at the same time, they are trying to play down some of the

significance of this test in itself but it doesn't appear to be successful long range ballistic missile from the submarine, to be launched from underwater, that the actual device itself only flew a very short distance above the surface, but the five other countries that had this capability throughout world it took them initial years before they had a successful test, and having submarines that could do this. they see this as a very troubling development. >> why is north korea's launch of ballistic missiles so significant? >> for that you have to look at how south korea has said all along it would intend to respond to a possible north korean nuclear launch. it has been developing an air

missile shield called the kamd, which would be designed to intercept a plifl in flight, nifl flight -- mix inmissile in flight, if north korea manages to get and this is still a big if, if it manages to get large enough technologically advanced enough, long enough range to patrol underwater and remain undetected which could launch at any time in the future then that poses very serious problems for that strategy of how to counter north korea. there are editorials in the newspaper on monday, one in the korea daily, for example which fawkstalks about this like a sputnik moment now become obsolete even

before it's been completed. certainly north korea says that this is very significant, it calls this the equivalent of having a time bomb strapped to the back ever its enemy which could go off at any time. and for once this kind of florid language coming out of north korea is taken very seriously in the south. they can work with the united states to detect submarine mochtsmovements, and that is how they will deal with the threat. if there is not one now there will be in a few years time. >> harry, thank you typhoon makes landfall in the philippines. and cuba's president helps pope francis to help end the diplomatic deep freeze with the united states. more on that, stay with us.

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respond relentlessly against the submarine ballistic missile firing. typhoon noul has weakened and moving towards japan. thousands of people have been moved to shelters. jamilla allen allendogan, reports. >> they're sloamthey're sloalg going back slowly going back to their homes smaller houses along the coastline and fishing

boats have been destroyed. this is not as bad as a lot of people were worried about. the typhoon arrived two months sooner than expected but brought much needed rain to rice fields and corn fields that have been battered by the summer heat. >> jamilla, what would have happened if the storm had been worse? >> that's a question that a lot of people have been asking now. at least 20 typhoons hit the philippines every year. they are becoming stronger however. the most recently strong typhoon hit in november 2013 when more than 8,000 people were killed and millions other displaced. there was a study that shows the philippines is the third most vulnerable country to natural

disasters other than other asia pacific countries. what they say mainly is climate change impact for areas here in the philippines. >> jamilla thank you. now, euro zone finance ministers are meeting in brussels. athens is refusing to cut phoning meet its creditors' other demands. john siropolous is here with the story. >> the government is optimistic that it will reach a partial agreement, but the consensus among financial experts is that grease is now going through its last cash reserves. serious disagreements remain between greece and its

creditors, pensions, labor law and economic reform. if the talks do not go well then creditors will not give the greek government $8.3 billion in economic aid. but it needs to pay salaries and pensions and installments on its debt. greece hasn't received any financial aid from its creditors for the last nine months so state suppliers are not any longer being paid and pension funds and public trusts have been ordered to lend the government their bank deposits in order to prevent default. >> peace deal agreed in minsk in february is moving forward. vladimir putin made the comments as he welcomed angela merkel to moscow. she was there to mark celebrations marking the 70th

anniversary of the world war ii. bad period because of the differences in assessment of events in ukraine. there is every reason to believe that although the minsk process has its difficulties it is still moving forward. >> translator: we have once again confirmed that the minsk package is what we have and that we should try omove forward on the spaces, we don't have anything else and we want to work further. we are doing a lot to stop the civil war. the whole world is expecting us to overcome the difficulties and my visit today shows that we want to work together with russia and not against russia. >> the european union will ask for backing ever boat najing. libyan border guards have arrested 163 egyptian migrants

as they try cross the country in the back of a truck. a series of arrests of migrants with hopes of catching a boat to europe. meanwhile abraham debashi says libya has been left out of crucial are discussions. you might find some images disturbing. >> thousands and thousands are willing to take their chance. he tells me there was chaos people were shouting, the boat capsized and people fell into the water. he doesn't know what happened next, he was thinking of himself. he was rest constitute by the libyan coast guard but often dead bodies are forgotten at sea and they float back to libya. he says he has never seen anything like it. he's a driver of misrata's only

refrigerated ambulance. >> it's horrifying. there is a terrible smell. the bodies were in the water for 20 or 30 days. some were eaten by the fish. some bloated or dissolved by the salt. others are found floating and fishermen bring them back. >> the corpses are brought back in misrata's hospital. it's not cold enough, the smell of rotting bodies are overwhelming. the bodies were found some are so disfigured it seems they've been in the water for a while. there's even the body of a child and by the looks of it he was between three and four years old. they were found on the beach in january and since they have been lying here slowly decomposing.

nobody knows their names or where they came from. somewhere, the their families wonder what happened to them. >> translator: it is hard to see these dead bodies, no one comes for them. the fridge just chills the bodies it does not freeze them. they stay here for months, sometimes six or seven. they suffer in death as well, it is really painful. >> reporter: they are given a number, only the location they were found is registered. it will take a long time to bury them. in a country of war dead migrants are not a priority. the remains will eventually end up in this cemetery, 37 migrants were finally buried here recently. those at the morgue will join them one day. the story of the dead bodies will go unnoticed by the

thousands of migrants waiting to cross the mediterranean. any one of them runs the very real risk of ending up here in misrata's nameless cemetery. hoda abdel hamid al jazeera misrata. >> opponents of erdogan and his ruling party says his visit violates turkish law. french president francois hollande has arrived in haiti for a visit. and he previously visit evidence guadalupe.

>> raul castro made a rare visit to the vatican on tuesday. lucia newman explains. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a meeting to thank pope francis for his help on getting the united states and cuba. but there was a stunning announcements. >> i'm not kidding i'm a communist, the cuban communist party did not allow it but it is allowed now, it is a step forward. >> reporter: it would actually be a return to castro's past. he and his brother fidel went to a jess wit school, before declaring themselves atheist and shutting down schools. it just so happens that pope francis is the first jess wit

leader of the church. we asked the leader of cuba's catholic church, jaime ortega. >> it is natural cuba to open up to the world and the world to open up to cuba. >> pope francis will be the third pontiff to visit cuba in 17 years a lot since in cuba, the church is not particularly strong. pope francis's role in helping to reestablish diplomatic ties between havana and washington makes this upcoming visit particularly significant. mixing politics and religion is as old as time. and both castro and the pope are proving it once again.

lucia newman, al jazeera havana. >> hundreds of women demanded justice for their children. are amnesty international estimates 25,000 people have gone missing in mexico in recent years. venezuela's indigenous groups, its people have long struggled to keep their identity and culture alive and now their efforts are paying off. they brought their language from the brink of dying out. virginia lopez reports. >> the anu people of western venezuela say they are of the water and like the water. there is some commerce and men continue to fish. but their culture and their language nearly vanished. recognizing the importance language has in the process of

self determination anthropologists like ali fernandez, began work on the vocabulary with the three people who continue to speak it. the task was made even more difficult because the anu barely spoke among each other. the three anu elders who helped fernandez have died but thanks to her it's taught in schools like these. even the venezuelan national anthem has been translated. for local anthropologists it's helped the anu regain their sense of identity, and greater participation. a participation that many hope will help break a cycle of

discrimination that made many abandon their traditions. >> this job is very hard, far away and it's very thin but there's nothing else to do. all my life i had the same job. collecting to build ropes for the tourist sports. >> hernandez does not ignore the challenges that modernization proves to be. >> they need to receive tools that will allow them to defend themselves in the world. >> as the anu struggle with changes all around them, fernandez and his team hope the

anu can decide their own fate. veneha hernandez, al jazeera venezuela. >> a reminder, you can keep up to date, on our website the address, aljazeera.com that's aljazeera.com. savings on to our customers through everyday low prices. welcome huuuuugh jackman! >> total revenue i believe every year: 400 billion dollars. having low prices drives traffic to our stores, and increases